Why doesn’t my boss agree that commuting is a waste of time?
I followed the debate at work from home Alongrawdly, and note that he recently transformed the costs and inconveniences of commuting. In reality I left my previous job after we were told to return to the office five days a week. I told my boss that the long and expensive train journey to the office was a difficulty for me, and his answer was “sucking him”.
My new manager realizes that when you live in external suburbs like me, a pendularism can be two hours a day and cost thousands of dollars a year. I know colleagues who guide and say that it is even worse than public transport – and even more expensive when taking into account the parking lot. Isn’t it just a good policy to consider how difficult some movements are and helping employees to work around them?
For too long, the wasted time and the cost associated with long movements have been awakened as a necessary evil, an integral part of the world of modern work.Credit: John Shakespeare
The question of working remotely and its merits has emerged sometimes in work therapy and I always think it is worth recognizing that, for some jobs, working far from a central site is not practical or impossible. But your work (which you asked us not to mention) and many others are lent to some or all the work done outside the office.
For these works, the simple answer to your question is, yes, it is a good policy to think of the possible problems and frustrations posed by the commuting. In fact, I think it is a good policy to consider all the advantages of the work remotely, instead of rejecting the idea as a pandemic fashion.
As you pointed out, if you live at a certain distance from work – or even you just have to go through a CBD to get to an office and return – pendularism can vary from a challenge to the nightmare. Often, as you said, expensive and taking over time, but it can also be intolerably boring.
I remember the push to a job many years ago, which almost always provided for the crash in traffic for kilometers. It was so boring that it became exasperating. Although this may seem irreverent, I really think there is a mental health aspect in onerous movements.
Until only relatively recently, the remote work on a mass scale was science fiction stuff.
Today, many work places take mental health much more seriously than ever. Yet many of those same workplaces do not think of their people who pay for the “privilege” of spending a dozen or more hours every week in the car or a carriage to enter the office every day – and return home.
It could be the time and the money spent for things that make people happier and healthier: to be with the family, work on a hobby or practice a sport, cook for friends, exercise, relax or recover sleep … the list is infinite.
